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b'A new podcast about an ancient dale from journalist and broadcaster Caroline Beck.\\u202f\\u202f \\n\\u202f \\nSomewhere high up in the North Pennines, between everywhere and nowhere at all, is Weardale, a remote northern dale.\\u202f It\\u2019s a place of old lead mines, deep worked out limestone quarries, and hill farming; the home of day-dreamers, explorers, incomers, artists, philosophers, sky-watchers, story tellers and travellers.\\u202f \\n\\u202f \\nOver a series of ten exclusive interviews with writers and poets Caroline has gone in search of \\u202fwhat it means to live in\\u202f England\\u2019s last wilderness.\\u202f \\n \\nAs the series reaches its final episode, she returns home on regular walk up into a former quarry now overgrown with wildflowers, where nature has healed its own ravages, and which has a restorative effect on the walker. As she reflects on the interviews she has undertaken with writers across the series, she also considers the very concept of \\u2018home\\u2019 itself. \\n \\nNarrated and recorded by Caroline Beck \\nProduced by Jay Sykes \\n \\nTen Words for a Northern Landscape\\u202f is commissioned by \\u202fNorthern Heartlands and produced as part of Durham Book Festival, a Durham County Council event. The recording was made possible by funding and support from the National Lottery Heritage Fund and Arts Council England. Look out for\\u202f Ten Words \\u202ffor a Northern Landscape \\u202fon the New Writing North podcast and Durham Book Festival website.\\u202f \\n \\n#10wordspodcast'